CVE-2023-2967 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The TinyMCE Custom Styles WordPress plugin before 1.1.4 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00099.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Tinymce Custom Styles Project	Tinymce Custom Styles

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:tinymce_custom_styles_project:tinymce_custom_styles:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-34413	The TinyMCE Custom Styles WordPress plugin before 1.1.4 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9afec4aa-1210-4c40-b566-64e37acf2b64

History

Mon, 05 May 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-07-10T12:41:10.826Z

Updated: 2025-05-05T15:58:19.023Z

Reserved: 2023-05-29T19:32:35.912Z

Link: CVE-2023-2967

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:41:04.024Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-07-10T16:15:51.757

Modified: 2025-05-05T16:15:39.193

Link: CVE-2023-2967

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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